Great- indeed the clue is there in the sequence in your very first post.
What's the program/filter to be avoided?
You will also have significant problems if you then try to use disk imaging (as is so strongly recommended by members). E.g. Macrium Reflect (free).
You would have to use the program's boot disk.
Isn't hindsight wonderful! Never occurred to me that they would do anything like this.
It's called Techloq, and is actually a very good filter. I just don't think they went about this in a very sensible way. Anyone tech-savvy enough to be able to do a system restore would be able to take a disk image as well, and that would provide a much more robust way of avoiding the filter, as when they copied the current image back on to the disk, you wouldn't be able to detect what had happened. Even if the system restore idea worked (which I doubt, as I'm not sure you could revert back to the latest restore point), you'd still have your browsing history to sort out.
As it happens, I have set that up already, but what bothers me is that something like Macrium is only able to replace your entire disk with a previous image. System restore just puts the system back to where it was, leaving all your data and settings alone. That's why it's so useful.
Ho hum, you live and learn. Thanks again, I really appreciate all the time you (and everyone else) spent helping me.
Absolutely true- no claim to equivalence there.
You could...
- have two disk imaging sequences- one periodic, to media stored offline, and another more frequently scheduled to online media
- run disk imaging peridocally, and have a separate data backup using a different program, run more frequently- e.g. synchronised backup.
- use Rollback RX (free is good, but abandonware now- commercial otherwise) - nearer to System Restore
- and as MS disabled Regback (automatic registry backup) at the end of 1709, you could re-enable that (tutorial) or use a 3rd party reg. backup prog
Personally I wouldn't want something on my PC that interfered with the O/S like that.
Well, had they been unfront about it before installing, I might have considered it, but to do this without telling me is not good.
It's also a complete waste of time. If I were to revert to a previous restore point, I couldn't come back to today's anyway, as today's restore point wouldn't exist anymore, so they are trying to avoid something that probably couldn't happen.
Great news on finding the culprit. Thank you for posting back with the details.
If wanted, you could try doing a repair install of Windows 10 to see if that may be able to fix System Restore.
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
However, as dalchina posted, you would be much better off keeping updated system images using something like Macrium Reflect.
System Restore with created restore points may be fine for a quick undo of something, but it's just not as reliable as a good system image.
@Brink
It's not a case of fixing System Restore, they are actively monitoring it, and if anything enables it, they immediately disable it, so a repair install wouldn't help, as as soon as it re-enabled restore, Techloq would disable it.
As mentioned, I use Macrium to do nightly disk images anyway, I just like restore, as it's a good quick fix for something like a driver update that failed. Using Macrium requires copying all my user data and settings onto another drive, restoring with Macrium, then copying my data back. System restore avoids the need for the data copying.
Thanks again.
I don't need to reinstall Windows, I have my disk image from before I installed it, so can go back to that.
The problem is that I want the filter. It's a case of deciding if I want it enough to put up with them disabling system restore, or if I look for another one and try to find out in advance if they do any dumb tricks like this.
Thanks again.
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In all fairness to Techloq, as soon as I mentioned wanting System Restore, they said I should send them my TeamViewer details and they will re-enable it. It seems like their default position is to disable it, but re-enable for anyone who requires/wants it.
So, I'm happy now(well, I will be when they actually do it. Still waiting).
I usually image the current system before restoring a backup image. Then once the backup is complete I mount the system image made beforehand and restore all missing personal data from personal directories using:
TSR Copy Changed Files Software - Free software for logging changed and modified files. - free.
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